澡

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澡 U+6FA1, 澡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6FA1
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 澢 →

Translingual

Han character

澡 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水口口木 (ERRD), four-corner 36194, composition ⿰氵喿)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 652, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18379
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1062, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1756, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6FA1

Chinese

trad. 澡
simp. # 澡
2nd round simp. ⿰氵早
alternative forms 淉
𱧘
𱩍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 澡
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (喿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
藻 *ʔsaːwʔ
澡 *ʔslaːwʔ
璪 *ʔsaːwʔ
繰 *ʔsaːwʔ, *saːw, *sʰaw
躁 *ʔsaːws
趮 *ʔsaːws
操 *sʰaːw, *sʰaːws
幧 *sʰaːw, *sʰaw
懆 *sʰaːwʔ
鄵 *sʰaːws
鐰 *zaːw, *sʰaw
臊 *saːw, *saːws
鱢 *saːw
燥 *saːwʔ, *saːws
噪 *saːws
髞 *saːws
喿 *saːws
譟 *saːws
劋 *ʔsawʔ, *ʔseːwʔ
橾 *soːwʔ, *srow

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔslaːwʔ) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 喿 (OC *saːws).

Etymology

Compare Mizo su, sûk (“to wash”), though the vowel in these forms do not correspond well with the Old Chinese form (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • chó/chó͘ - literary;
  • cháu - vernacular.
Rime
Character 澡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 子晧切
Baxter tsawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sawX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sɑuX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sɑuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zou2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 澡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zǎo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsawX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mə-tsˁawʔ/
English wash (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 澡
Reading # 1/1
No. 16566
Phonetic
component 		喿
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		早
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔslaːwʔ/

Definitions

澡

  1. (literary) to wash one's hands
  2. to bathe; to wash
    洗澡  ―  xǐzǎo  ―  to take a bath
    澡堂  ―  zǎotáng  ―  bathhouse

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *ntsæwˣ (“to wash (hands)”)

Japanese

Kanji

澡

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. bathe; wash

Readings

  • Go-on: そう (sō)
  • Kan-on: そう (sō)
  • Kun: あらう (arau, 澡う)

Korean

Hanja

澡 • (jo) (hangeul 조, revised jo, McCune–Reischauer cho, Yale co)

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Vietnamese

Han character

澡: Hán Nôm readings: tảo

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References

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